by admin | Mar 2, 2009 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Culture, Neoliberalism, Sports
_MG_5159.jpg, originally uploaded by Unbowed. Here’s a little game to play during your next NBA outing: Look around for how many suites are dark. (You’ll notice them specifically in the corners or behind the baskets.) A dark suite means either that...
by admin | Jun 5, 2008 | Pop Culture, Sports |
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by admin | Jun 5, 2008 | Announcements, Sports |
I didn’t think I’d make it to this point. Or said another way, I really didn’t think about what my life would be after 32. The year 2001 represented the future to me, so 32 was always my imagined end point. And here I stand and remain…. One...
by admin | Oct 6, 2007 | Education, Sports, Urban Politics |
This story is interesting to me for a couple of different reasons. I went to school in Dearborn. Beginning in the sixties Chaldeans moved into Dearborn from the Middle East to work at Ford. But Dearborn stayed more or less 90% white until the mid to late eighties. A...
by admin | Aug 22, 2007 | Culture, Sports |
The central meme that will define Vick’s circumstance is a simple one. He didn’t leave the hood in the hood. People make the same argument about Pacman, and used to make the same argument about AI. But here’s the thing. While there is a set of...
by admin | Jun 7, 2007 | Culture, Pop Culture, Racial Politics, Sports |
I've been reading about Gary Sheffield's (expanded) comments about the relative absence of African Americans in Major League Baseball. To tell you how much I know and how deep this situation is, until Sheffield made his comments I just assumed that Sheffield...
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